My Journey to Haiti: Day 5

Man oh man! It got REAL today!!! We went to a village in to Kalico and luckily we had a few extra people join us. Two EMTs which helped a lot.

Most of the medical team piled in the truck

We pulled up to Kalico around 9:30 and I think all of our mouths hit the floor. We were expecting to set up the clinic in the church. We just didn't realize that the church was just some tarps wrapped around some sticks. It's the blue thing in the picture below.

It was too hot to set up in there so we just set tables up between houses. And some of us immediately put on sunscreen. Others later regretted not listening to their mom (Amelia 😉).

This is my translator Fidelson Joseph.

The girls started measuring the patient's against the side of the house then the nurses and one EMT triaged before sending the patient to the doctor.

Waiting in the triage line

Triage table

Seeing Dr Nicole "Knee-cole"

Most of the patients complained of headaches, stomachaches, coughs, vaginal infections, and ringworm of the scalp. I had one patient complain that she had a heart attack 3 days ago and was still having chest pain rates a 9/10 but her BP and pulse were perfect, denied nausea or vomiting and sat at my station in no distress. That was bizarre. We also had a patient that had a bad wound to his index finger. Was stabbed by barb on fish 2 weeks ago. We also had to do 2 pregnancy tests. Keep I'm mind we didn't have a bathroom so we sent the women away with a cup and they would return with a cup of urine. After the test was done we would send them away with the cup and instruct them to dump it where they collected it. Total we saw 71 patients and 3 accepted Christ while visiting the pastor afterwards. Praise God!